Les Etats-Unis auraient espionné le téléphone de Merkel dès 2002

Les Etats-Unis auraient espionné le téléphone de Merkel dès 2002

The U.S. could spying Angela Merkel the phone for more than a decade, reports Saturday, October 26 the German press. The weekly Der Spiegel ensures that the mobile phone of the German Chancellor in 2002 was placed on a list drawn up by a special department of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Special Collection Service (SCS). It was listed under the code "GE Chancellor Merkel" and was still there in the weeks leading up to the visit of Barack Obama in Berlin in June. Previous press articles quoting the telephone monitoring by the NSA Angela Merkel sparked outrage in Germany and the U.S. ambassador in Berlin was summoned Thursday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Read: Mobile Merkel touted by the United States? "ANTENNA SPY unrecorded LEGALLY" In a document cited by the SCS magazine, said the NSA have an "aerial espionage not legally identified" in the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. The discovery of this antenna "would seriously damage the relationship of the United States with another government," it is written. From this dish, NSA agents and CIA monitored communications in the government district in the German capital with high-tech equipment. The magazine points out that it is not possible to determine whether the SCS recorded conversations or merely to collect data connection. Citing a secret document from 2010, Der Spiegel adds that such antennas are available in approximately 80 locations across the world, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva and Frankfurt. Read: The NSA would have tapped 35 "world leaders" APOLOGIES FOR BARACK OBAMA U.S. President Barack Obama apologized to Angela Merkel when the latter called on Wednesday to demand explanations, writes Der Spiegel, citing a source in the office of the Chancellor. According to the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the U.S. president told the German Chancellor that he had no knowledge of this surveillance. Angela Merkel wants the twenty-eight states of the European Union reached an "agreement not to spy," similar to that of France and Germany seek with the United States. The European Parliament will send in Washington on Monday a delegation of nine elected for explanations from the U.S. authorities, while Germany will send its own delegation composed of Angela Merkel employees and officials of the intelligence services. Read Angela Merkel wants a European agreement "non-intelligence"